Ditch the New Maths for Good Old Euclid
Every pupil should have the chance to learn from the neglected father of geometry
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Writers, Visible and Invisible
Writers are hidden beings, says the winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award
ONLINE ONLY: Education It’s Not
‘Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared,’ declared the Reverend Charles Colton almost two centuries ago, ‘for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
China, Red in Tooth and Claw
Wolf Totem is a disconcerting mixture of nationalism, lupine metaphors and nostalgia for the age of nomads. But what does the novel’s runaway success tell us of the aspirations of the new
The Wrong Idea of a University
Higher education has been hijacked by the quangocracy: teaching is neglected, research is distorted by bogus assessment methods, and trust in professional judgement is gone
Admissions of Innocence
How Labour hates our ancient universities! There they are, acting as though their responsibility were to observe age-old standards and values of higher learning, when in the government’s eyes the proper function